The American Experience - 1988 Jonestown The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple 19-11 was released on:

USA: 9 April 2007

Finland: 11 September 2007

Rebecca Moore has written:

'The Jonestown Letters'

'Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple' -- subject(s): History, Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978, Peoples Temple

'In defense of Peoples Temple-- and other essays' -- subject(s): Peoples Temple

'New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple'

'Voices of Christianity'

The Jonestown massacre took place in Guyana, South America. It was at the Jonestown settlement established by the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, where over 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978.

S. F. Alinin has written:

'The Jonestown carnage--a CIA crime' -- subject(s): Peoples Temple, United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Jonestown was the informal name for the "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project", an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, United States, led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious in November 1978, when 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana's capital. The name of the settlement became synonymous for the incidents at those locations. On November 18, 1978, 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a unnatural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at a nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The victims included Congressman Leo Ryan, the first Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States. they were forced to drink cyanide and even put it in purple cool aid so that the kids would drink it!!!

=== === === === Jim Jones made them all think he was god.